Editing Iomedae (section)

==The Horn Incident==
Unfortunately for Iomedae, if there's one thing she's known for, it's a time in ''Wrath of the Righteous'' where she appears before the players personally. She decides to grill the PCs to test them and see if they're ready, which involves asking them questions. Several of these questions are trick questions, where she's actually looking to see the party's reaction to them, and one is about one of her own personal deeds. Answering correctly causes her to drop off some minor artifacts. [[What|Answering wrongly (or just answering in a way she doesn't like) causes her to blast them with celestial horns that do up to 20d6(nonlethal) sonic damage.]] Also, openly mocking her (or objecting too strenuously to what's going on) causes her to permanently deafen and render mute the person doing it. So essentially, she's popping up in the last leg of a long adventure to inflict severe pain and injury on a party that has done nothing but try to help her, brag about her own deeds (when one of the things she's explicitly meant to be testing is humility), and generally act more like a power-tripping brat than the cosmic ideal of honor and protection that she's supposed to be. In fact, going by what's known about her church in official material, she was apparently acting in defiance of her own edicts.

This one was so bad that even the designers stepped in and admitted they'd screwed up on the forums, since they figured the sonic damage was survivable at that point and therefore it wouldn't be a big deal, and because of the way the encounter is written (if one person in the party gets the right answer, they all do), most parties with a good amount of brain cells and at least one person with Knowledge (Religion) should be able to avoid taking any damage. However, the paragraphs upon paragraphs of things Iomedae will do to the party for stepping out of line in a casual conversation (such as rendering a person permanently deaf, blind, and mute for simply making fun of her) caused a lot of players to interpret her as a psychopath. Consequently, any conversation about her is inevitably going to tip in the direction of the incident.